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What a dick move. I mean, I would be praising him if he had copied Dragonball, but he had to pick the worst manga in Shounen Jump to copy. Haven't the otaku's been put through enough? The man should be killed.

But he made huge alterations despite tracing certain parts. Is that really infringing on copyright law?

There is a certain percentage, I want to say something like 35%, that must be original, in order to get away with it. This only applies to the USA, and the percentage may be incorrect. This is allegedly how those airbrush artists and street vendors get away with selling their wares - it's obviously a character, but a percentage of it is different, even if it's just the style the artist works in.

There is a certain percentage, I want to say something like 35%, that must be original, in order to get away with it. This only applies to the USA, and the percentage may be incorrect. This is allegedly how those airbrush artists and street vendors get away with selling their wares - it's obviously a character, but a percentage of it is different, even if it's just the style the artist works in.

Source - I know an airbrush artist who sells t-shirts.

I recall from my graphic arts classes that you must modify the art by at least 30% in order to get away with it.

There are also free use rules for journalism and such, but that wouldn't apply in this case...

Anyway, I don't get why Simmons would copy Bleach anyway... c'mon now... as others have said, there are much better character designs elsewhere.

What kinda pisses me off is that you know his crappy comic got reamed through a publisher because the kid has a famous family name and all the money in the world but no talent...

Man, I wonder if he thought he could get away with it? O.o
Anyway, this was pretty bad. I wonder if he'll face the law. Probably not...

Aw, the wonderful sound of AF.

Originally Posted by BurntHouse

Robots one-up "love" simply by "obeying" you. Who needs love and respect when we can get fear and anguish instead? :3

Originally Posted by Condey

I can't think of any that come to mind at the moment, but my default response to a personal attack is "Your dog has hepatitas". It doesn't work all the time, but hoo-boy when it does, it works wonders.

Robots one-up "love" simply by "obeying" you. Who needs love and respect when we can get fear and anguish instead? :3

Originally Posted by Condey

I can't think of any that come to mind at the moment, but my default response to a personal attack is "Your dog has hepatitas". It doesn't work all the time, but hoo-boy when it does, it works wonders.

There is a certain percentage, I want to say something like 35%, that must be original, in order to get away with it. This only applies to the USA, and the percentage may be incorrect. This is allegedly how those airbrush artists and street vendors get away with selling their wares - it's obviously a character, but a percentage of it is different, even if it's just the style the artist works in.

There is a certain percentage, I want to say something like 35%, that must be original, in order to get away with it. This only applies to the USA, and the percentage may be incorrect. This is allegedly how those airbrush artists and street vendors get away with selling their wares - it's obviously a character, but a percentage of it is different, even if it's just the style the artist works in.

Source - I know an airbrush artist who sells t-shirts.

So if Nick Simmons did T-shirts, he'd be in trouble? If so then it makes sense that he would get sued.